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• Veep res1gns pos'9RT
criticizes ASNAU
saying he did not have the time to
devote to the job, Mark Spencer re­singed
last week as ASNAU vice
president for the North Academic Cen­ter.
Spencer said his off • campus job
which he did not know he would have
when he ran for office, he manages
a Flagstaff motel, does not allow him
enough time to work as ASNAU vice
president.
Pat Nilz, ASNAU president, said t!le
ASNA U eonstitution makes noprovislons
for filling a vacancy created by r esign­ation
and the Executive Cotmcil has not
decided yet whether to bold a special
election.
"I'm not a politician," Spencer said.
"When I ran last spring I thought it would
be the road to glory, but it wasn't. I
just did not have the time. I wasn't
much help."
Monday, Spencer examined the work
of the AS AU Executive Council and of.
fered some suggestions to improve the
e:fficiency of the group.
"1 would like to see the Council lean
mo:e to campus affairs rather than
state and national affairs," Spencer
said.
He praised Nilz and the rest of the
Council for their work this year, but
questioned the direction of their ener­gies.
Spencer cited as an example of involve-
. ment in projects other than campus at­:
fairs, the recent work of some Council
members in the John l.J.ndsay presiden­tial
campaign.
Nilz• work for Lindsay is fine per­sonally,
Spencer said, but added that Nilz
must remember he is president of all
the students or NAU.
" This is a direct example of the ex­ternal
affairs that drains the energy
Nilz has that he could apply to matters
involving NAU. This is cheating the stu­dents,"
he s aid.
Spencer pointed out the work Nilz did
last summer, installing marquees and an
~~uncement line on campus, and his
abtlity to work with Dr. J. Lawrence
Walkup, university president, as ex­amples
or the type or work Nilz did for
the campus.
The former vice president expressed
hope that this energy would be again di­r
ected to campus affairs.
Spencer said tlte new form of student
government, which was instituted last
spring and placed all the duties of stu­dent
government with the Executive
:ouncil,-is a good plan.
He said a fault with the small council
is that students have to be sure· they
elect as president the candidate with the
most guts, the one able to make a deci­sion
and stick with it regardless of pres­sure
from small group~.
continued on pag~ 2
Feels better?
Thursday, February 3, 1972 Flagstaff, Arizona
Elected to convention
An attractive young coed wonders
exactly what the person was trying to
soy who adcled this message to the
sign in front of the Bookstore.
(Photo by Chris Upham)
Student delegation supports Lindsay
Good political organization, an appealing
candidate and a strong youth turnout were the
reasons given by five NA U students in explain­ing
how ihey were elected last Saturday as Demo­cratic
Party District delegates to the state con­vention.
The :five, Harry Biller, Brian Keisling, Pat
Nilz, Becky Spooner, andJeffWillis,willjoin
12 other delegates Feb. 12 in Phoenix as legisla­tive
district two delegates to the convention. For­ty
• three people ran for the 17 positions.
The students all ran committed to support the
[>residential candidacy or New York City-Mayor
John Lindsay and join Mrs. Margaret A. Nation, a
NAU librarian, in the largest delegation from this
area committed to one candidale.
Four supporters olSen. EdmundMuskieandsev.
en uncommitted delegates were also elected.
Nilz, ASNAU president, was the top student vote­getter
and third highest In the district with 987
votes. Keisling had 975 votes, Willis 914,
Blller 746, and Miss Spooner, 722. At four poll­ing
places In the District 1,279 Democrats cast
a total of 20,737 votes, as each voter had 17
votes.
In Phoenix, the NAU students will meet withal­most
500 other delegates elected across the
state Saturday to choose the 25 delep.tes and 23
alternates that will represent A rlzona at the Demo­cratic
party national eonvenUon this summer .
or the delegates attending the state meeting,
189 are committed to Maslde, 118 t o Lindsay,
102 to Sen. George Md:iovern, 2 to Sen. Henrr
Jacksoo, 1 to Rep. Shirley Chisholm, 2 to Sen.
Hubert Humphrey, I to Sen. Va~~ee Hartt e, a00 85
are uncommitted.
The orpntzation of the all- student - rtm L~
say campaign, Ybich startled many Ioeal Demo-crats,
was cited by all rive as the big reason for
their election.
Miss Spooner, a freshman political science
major, explained that the emphasis of the Lind­say
organization was personal contact. "We went
door - to - door talking to peole about Lind­say.
It was just a matter of going out and meeting
people, talking to them, answering questions about
Lindsay," she said.
N ilz, who was in charge of the Lindsay cam­paign
for four legislative districts, said the ap.
proach of the organization was that each dele­gate
had to obtain 3() straight shots (all17
votes for a single delegate) to win the election,
and they had to do it.
NUz said a lot of students became interested
In working for Lindsay after he appeared on
campus, and that was when the organization real­ly
started.
Willis, a senior political science major from
Flagstaff, explained the organization of the cam­paign
from that point: "We capitalized on the p~
lleity we got from him coniing here and then start­ed
talking to people. We spoke at high school
classes to get out the really young vote; ve got
friends, people who like Lindsay, to committ
themselves to us; we had two national Lindsay
inside:
Creative Arts Festival
Nicky's Deli, a retreat
Athletic recruiting
page7
page 8
page 11
people out the last week to help us; and had an
intensive telephone campaign the :final night
to insure our pledged support."
After they got voters pledged to them Biller
said, a junior history major, they projected the
estimated turnout and ran the figures through a
computer in New York to determine what per­centage
the Lindsay delegates would need to get
elected.
On elec~ion day, according to Nilz, cars were
used to brmg voters to the polls and poll watch­ers
kept an accurate count of committed voters
who did vote so they could ask a committed per­son
to switch his 17 votes to another delegate
if one was gaining too many votes.
Keisling obtained the major ity of his support
~ Page and explained the organization up there.
I've lived in Page most of my life and got a lot
of local people, kids my own age to come out
and vtte for me.
"The youth vote surprised a lot or people
In Page. Pe pie cDdn't thtnk we had that poten­tial,"
Keisling added.
"We got basi eally student sq:~port for the
Lindsay delegates, although we did pull a lot
votes from off campus," Biller sa.fd.
He said that the turnout s howed that tbe city
must now tate ioto consideration the student in
any elections. ''It Is now a matter of weld:ing the
sttxlerts Into a viable minority force " Biller
said. •
Willis agreed with BIDer tbat tbe total student
turoom was lower tban tbe Lindsay people anti­cipated,
bm added, "It bad a. very signillcant
effect, wttbott. the student SlQ)Ort -.e would not
bave bad near as maay delegates elected!'
Miss Spooner said, " Tbe student vote real­ly
sboclred tbe -pecple tbat were running the
electioo..."

• Veep res1gns pos'9RT
criticizes ASNAU
saying he did not have the time to
devote to the job, Mark Spencer re­singed
last week as ASNAU vice
president for the North Academic Cen­ter.
Spencer said his off • campus job
which he did not know he would have
when he ran for office, he manages
a Flagstaff motel, does not allow him
enough time to work as ASNAU vice
president.
Pat Nilz, ASNAU president, said t!le
ASNA U eonstitution makes noprovislons
for filling a vacancy created by r esign­ation
and the Executive Cotmcil has not
decided yet whether to bold a special
election.
"I'm not a politician," Spencer said.
"When I ran last spring I thought it would
be the road to glory, but it wasn't. I
just did not have the time. I wasn't
much help."
Monday, Spencer examined the work
of the AS AU Executive Council and of.
fered some suggestions to improve the
e:fficiency of the group.
"1 would like to see the Council lean
mo:e to campus affairs rather than
state and national affairs," Spencer
said.
He praised Nilz and the rest of the
Council for their work this year, but
questioned the direction of their ener­gies.
Spencer cited as an example of involve-
. ment in projects other than campus at­:
fairs, the recent work of some Council
members in the John l.J.ndsay presiden­tial
campaign.
Nilz• work for Lindsay is fine per­sonally,
Spencer said, but added that Nilz
must remember he is president of all
the students or NAU.
" This is a direct example of the ex­ternal
affairs that drains the energy
Nilz has that he could apply to matters
involving NAU. This is cheating the stu­dents,"
he s aid.
Spencer pointed out the work Nilz did
last summer, installing marquees and an
~~uncement line on campus, and his
abtlity to work with Dr. J. Lawrence
Walkup, university president, as ex­amples
or the type or work Nilz did for
the campus.
The former vice president expressed
hope that this energy would be again di­r
ected to campus affairs.
Spencer said tlte new form of student
government, which was instituted last
spring and placed all the duties of stu­dent
government with the Executive
:ouncil,-is a good plan.
He said a fault with the small council
is that students have to be sure· they
elect as president the candidate with the
most guts, the one able to make a deci­sion
and stick with it regardless of pres­sure
from small group~.
continued on pag~ 2
Feels better?
Thursday, February 3, 1972 Flagstaff, Arizona
Elected to convention
An attractive young coed wonders
exactly what the person was trying to
soy who adcled this message to the
sign in front of the Bookstore.
(Photo by Chris Upham)
Student delegation supports Lindsay
Good political organization, an appealing
candidate and a strong youth turnout were the
reasons given by five NA U students in explain­ing
how ihey were elected last Saturday as Demo­cratic
Party District delegates to the state con­vention.
The :five, Harry Biller, Brian Keisling, Pat
Nilz, Becky Spooner, andJeffWillis,willjoin
12 other delegates Feb. 12 in Phoenix as legisla­tive
district two delegates to the convention. For­ty
• three people ran for the 17 positions.
The students all ran committed to support the
[>residential candidacy or New York City-Mayor
John Lindsay and join Mrs. Margaret A. Nation, a
NAU librarian, in the largest delegation from this
area committed to one candidale.
Four supporters olSen. EdmundMuskieandsev.
en uncommitted delegates were also elected.
Nilz, ASNAU president, was the top student vote­getter
and third highest In the district with 987
votes. Keisling had 975 votes, Willis 914,
Blller 746, and Miss Spooner, 722. At four poll­ing
places In the District 1,279 Democrats cast
a total of 20,737 votes, as each voter had 17
votes.
In Phoenix, the NAU students will meet withal­most
500 other delegates elected across the
state Saturday to choose the 25 delep.tes and 23
alternates that will represent A rlzona at the Demo­cratic
party national eonvenUon this summer .
or the delegates attending the state meeting,
189 are committed to Maslde, 118 t o Lindsay,
102 to Sen. George Md:iovern, 2 to Sen. Henrr
Jacksoo, 1 to Rep. Shirley Chisholm, 2 to Sen.
Hubert Humphrey, I to Sen. Va~~ee Hartt e, a00 85
are uncommitted.
The orpntzation of the all- student - rtm L~
say campaign, Ybich startled many Ioeal Demo-crats,
was cited by all rive as the big reason for
their election.
Miss Spooner, a freshman political science
major, explained that the emphasis of the Lind­say
organization was personal contact. "We went
door - to - door talking to peole about Lind­say.
It was just a matter of going out and meeting
people, talking to them, answering questions about
Lindsay," she said.
N ilz, who was in charge of the Lindsay cam­paign
for four legislative districts, said the ap.
proach of the organization was that each dele­gate
had to obtain 3() straight shots (all17
votes for a single delegate) to win the election,
and they had to do it.
NUz said a lot of students became interested
In working for Lindsay after he appeared on
campus, and that was when the organization real­ly
started.
Willis, a senior political science major from
Flagstaff, explained the organization of the cam­paign
from that point: "We capitalized on the p~
lleity we got from him coniing here and then start­ed
talking to people. We spoke at high school
classes to get out the really young vote; ve got
friends, people who like Lindsay, to committ
themselves to us; we had two national Lindsay
inside:
Creative Arts Festival
Nicky's Deli, a retreat
Athletic recruiting
page7
page 8
page 11
people out the last week to help us; and had an
intensive telephone campaign the :final night
to insure our pledged support."
After they got voters pledged to them Biller
said, a junior history major, they projected the
estimated turnout and ran the figures through a
computer in New York to determine what per­centage
the Lindsay delegates would need to get
elected.
On elec~ion day, according to Nilz, cars were
used to brmg voters to the polls and poll watch­ers
kept an accurate count of committed voters
who did vote so they could ask a committed per­son
to switch his 17 votes to another delegate
if one was gaining too many votes.
Keisling obtained the major ity of his support
~ Page and explained the organization up there.
I've lived in Page most of my life and got a lot
of local people, kids my own age to come out
and vtte for me.
"The youth vote surprised a lot or people
In Page. Pe pie cDdn't thtnk we had that poten­tial,"
Keisling added.
"We got basi eally student sq:~port for the
Lindsay delegates, although we did pull a lot
votes from off campus," Biller sa.fd.
He said that the turnout s howed that tbe city
must now tate ioto consideration the student in
any elections. ''It Is now a matter of weld:ing the
sttxlerts Into a viable minority force " Biller
said. •
Willis agreed with BIDer tbat tbe total student
turoom was lower tban tbe Lindsay people anti­cipated,
bm added, "It bad a. very signillcant
effect, wttbott. the student SlQ)Ort -.e would not
bave bad near as maay delegates elected!'
Miss Spooner said, " Tbe student vote real­ly
sboclred tbe -pecple tbat were running the
electioo..."